Race
The reason Janie is compared to a mule in Their Eyes Were Watching God.
The two species that are crossed to breed a mule.
What is a donkey and a horse?
The process a mule cannot undertake.
What is reproduction?
The symbol that mules are often used as in literature.
What are resilience, oppression, and strength?
What Logan Killicks buys for Janie, and likewise how he treats her.
What is a work mule?
When talking with Janie, Nanny describes black women as this.
The reason Nanny marries Janie off to Logan Killicks.
What is to provide her with a stable life that she and her daughter did not get?
The reason Janie did not have any children.
What is her infertility?
This author uses mules in his work to show the backbone of the post-Reconstruction South.
Who is William Faulkner?
The reason Janie was happy to work in the fields with Tea Cake.
What is she is treated well, much like how mules work harder when they're well taken care of?